]]>http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-9232015/35089/feed0Colin Andrews – Crop Circles: Mirror Image of World Events and Human Behavior, With One Difference!http://www.openminds.tv/colin-andrews-crop-circles-mirror-image-of-world-events-and-human-behavior-with-one-difference/31693
http://www.openminds.tv/colin-andrews-crop-circles-mirror-image-of-world-events-and-human-behavior-with-one-difference/31693#commentsWed, 14 Jan 2015 23:22:07 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=31693Colin Andrews was the man who coined the term “crop circle” in the mid-1980s and spent three decades researching the phenomenon. During 2000, while being funded by Laurance Rockefeller to undertake an in-depth look at crop circles, Andrews announced that the two-year special investigation had shown approximately 80% of crop circles in the United Kingdom during that period were manmade, while 20% were left unresolved. Since that conclusion, Andrews has focused on what he believes to be the important piece of the crop circle mystery, human consciousness.
]]>http://www.openminds.tv/colin-andrews-crop-circles-mirror-image-of-world-events-and-human-behavior-with-one-difference/31693/feed0Aliens accused of making strange symbols in barley crop in Mexico (Video)http://www.openminds.tv/aliens-accused-making-strange-symbols-barely-crop-mexico-video/31496
http://www.openminds.tv/aliens-accused-making-strange-symbols-barely-crop-mexico-video/31496#commentsTue, 30 Dec 2014 00:37:07 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=31496Strange formations were found in a field in the Mexican town of La Magdalena Panoaya on Christmas day. Residents had reported strange lights in the area during a recent storm, and some people even reported strange figures running around in the fields.

According to the Mexican newspaper El Universal, officials at the Municipal Police of the state of Texcoco received an anonymous call that there were aliens in the barely fields near La Magdalena Panoaya. Rumors spread of the aliens in the area and people began to flock to the area to see what was going on. When they got there, they found strange formations in the crop.

Three of the teenagers who were first to find the strange formations believed them to have been made by aliens. They told El Universal. “These are the hands and feet of beings from another world.”

Other residents said that there were white flashes in the sky during a storm that began on Christmas Eve and lasted until Christmas morning. When the storm was gone, the strange formations were left.

Many have likened the strange formations to crop circles, which happen most often in the UK. However, crop circles are intricate designs, whereas the formations in La Magdalena Panoaya are mostly random. Some people are calling them crap circles. Others have speculated that perhaps the aliens were drunk.

There is another explanation. Similar patches of fallen crop have been found in the UK during storms. They are the result of high winds.

A field near Ellastone, Staffordshire has its crop flattened by strong winds during a storm. (Credit: DailyMail/Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press)

Either way, as seen in the video below recorded for Russia’s RT News, the mysterious formation are attracting a lot of attention.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/aliens-accused-making-strange-symbols-barely-crop-mexico-video/31496/feed7Nancy Talbott – Crop Circle Science: Cosmic Calling Cards?http://www.openminds.tv/nancy-talbott-crop-circle-science-cosmic-calling-cards/29951
http://www.openminds.tv/nancy-talbott-crop-circle-science-cosmic-calling-cards/29951#commentsMon, 01 Sep 2014 16:58:59 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=29951Nancy will discuss reports of bizarre manifestations observed as crop circles form in Holland, including a thorough scientific analysis of white powder deposits repeatedly discovered, not only in crop formations, but in other events occurring around the Dutch medium Robbert van den Broeke. There is evidence of deliberate interaction between an unknown “cosmic consciousness” and Robbert. Ms. Talbott will follow with many anomalous photos.

Nancy Talbott is the President of the BLT Research Team, Inc., a non-profit organization that for 20 years has been on the leading edge of scientific research into the crop circle phenomenon. BLT has documented multiple abnormalities found in crop circle plants and soils, including massive alteration of germination and growth-habit in seedlings grown from crop circle seeds and significant alteration of the crystallization structure of specific clay minerals in crop circle soils. Three BLT papers have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Recent work includes analyses of a very fine white powder found in crop circles near the Dutch medium Robbert van den Broeke as well as documentation of a wide range of very bizarre events directly related to this young man and the appearance of crop circles in his area. www.bltresearch.com

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-73114/29270/feed0Wiltshire Museum features first ever crop circle research exhibitionhttp://www.openminds.tv/wiltshire-museum-features-first-ever-crop-circle-research-exhibition/29150
http://www.openminds.tv/wiltshire-museum-features-first-ever-crop-circle-research-exhibition/29150#commentsFri, 25 Jul 2014 18:05:46 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=29150From the 21st of June until the 31st of August, 2014 the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes is presenting “Exploring the Mystery and Beauty of Crop Circles” as this year’s annual Summer Exhibition. Compiled and curated by Dutch and German crop circle researchers Monique Klinkenbergh and Andreas Müller, it is the first time ever that the crop circle phenomenon and the research behind it is featured in a exhibition in a historic museum. Together with the exhibition that was officially opened last Friday by MP Claire Perry, the Wiltshire Museum also hosts the “Crop Circle Access Centre” as an information centre for crop circle interested visitors and tourists in search for information about the latest crop circles and information about which examples can be visited and how.

The official poster of the current Summer Exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes. (Credit: Wiltshire Museum)

“Beside spectacular large-size prints of some of the work of the best national and international crop circle photographers the exhibition gives insights and detailed background information about the state of research into this fascinating phenomenon”, Andreas Müller explains. “The exhibition presents description of eyewitnesses to genuine (not man-made) crop circles forming within just a matter of seconds. We explain the results of laboratory analysis of plants and soils from crop circle sites that show unexplained changes. The exhibition presents the geometry within and behind the patterns and of course the true history of the phenomenon that – unknown to most – dates back many centuries. Furthermore we discuss the most popular explanation theories for crop circles and also the man-made side of the coin and the way in which crop-circle-inspired human ‘land-art’ has influenced not only the public view, but also research and mainly the image of the phenomenon presented by the mass-media.”

Some views into the exhibition. (Credit: grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de)

“The concept of our exhibition is based on the idea that there is a genuine, not man-made phenomenon”, adds Monique Klinkenbergh. “For this view, we present evidence and background facts. Over the last three decades printed and aired media presented the phenomenon mostly as the result ‘Dough and Dave’, the two elderly tricksters who suddenly appeared on the scene in 1991, followed by students and hoaxers. With our exhibition in the Wiltshire Museum we also want to set some records straight from a research point of view.

Official road signs are showing the way through town to the “Crop Circles Exhibition” at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes. (Credit: grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de)

At the same time while the exhibition is running, the Wiltshire Museum also hosts Klinkenberghs “Crop Circle Access Centre” (www.cropcircleaccess.com) that offers information on the latest crop circles and about which ones can be visited in agreement with the owning farmer.

Based on the scheme of a visitor’s tax – but on a voluntary basis – visitors can buy a so-called “Access Pass” for just 10 Pounds (about 13 Euro) that allows them to enter those crop circle fields of which the owning farmer is giving access under the pass-scheme. The money raised with this scheme then goes back to compensate the participating farmers for their loss of crop and damage caused by the visitors – while some of the farmers give back their part to local charity projects.

The curators of the exhibition Andreas Müller and Monique Klinkenbergh together with MP Claire Perry and the Chairman of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Doug Roseaman (l.to r.) at the official opening of the Crop Circle Exhibition in the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes. (Credit: grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de)

However, the Access Pass scheme is much more than a simple crop circle visitor’s tax, Klinkenbergh explains: “For the last three decades there was no coordinated system that took care for the interests of both sides: the wishes of crop circle interested tourists to visit the circles and at the same time the trouble of the affected farmers, their damaged crop, disrespected property and loss.

After many years in which especially the farmers suffered more trouble than pleasure over the crop circles in their fields and in special about so many unrequested and unwanted visitors, two years ago some of the farmers decided to cut new crop circles out as soon as they were discovered. While this is more than understandable from the farmer’s point of view, it is in the same time a dramatic loss for the research and documentation of this normally beautiful and peaceful phenomenon and of course also a loss for the local tourism.”

While the most tourists do not come to Wiltshire only because of the crop circles, the circles are definitively an important and additional attractor in the county of ancient monuments such as Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill, the West Kennet Long Barrow and so many other ancient sacred sites.

A crop circle formation next to Stonehenge in July 2002. (Credit: Andreas Müller/kornkreise-forschung.de)

“With the ‘Access Pass’ we do hope that we can bring back relaxation into the relationship between the farmers, researchers and crop circle tourists”, Klinkenbergh explains. “Of course the crop circle exhibition in the Wiltshire Museum has the same intention: Many farmers and people living next door to crop circle fields know amazingly little about this amazing phenomenon. With this exhibition we want to give something back to the local community and set some false records straight from the viewpoint of crop circle research.”

Since the early 1980s the crop circle phenomenon causes interest, sensation, speculation and controversial discussions even within the science community. While sceptics view the crop circles as nothing but one of the biggest hoaxes ever – researchers into the topic compiled a wide range of facts and evidence that altogether draw a different image.

One example of this is the fact that the true history of crop circles dates back much longer than the late 1970s: “We find descriptions of what we would call today ‘crop circles’ already in undated fairy tales and folk lore”, Müller explains. “First documents described crop circles already in the 16th and 17th century and in 1880 the scientific journal ‘Nature’ described crop circles in Surrey.”

A 1678 illustrated pamphlet describing “The Mowing Devil”

Every year between 100 and 200 new crop circles are reported worldwide. So far nearly 10.000 crop circles and formations in more than 60 countries around the globe were documented.

Beside eyewitness descriptions of genuine (not man-made) crop circles forming within a matter of seconds, anomalous changes have been found in laboratories comparing plant and soil (1, 2) samples from the inside of many crop circles with the control samples taken from outside the circles in the unaffected field. It has been shown that – contrary to what some skeptics claim – such described anomalies cannot be explained by mechanical flattening or as the result of natural recovery processes of once flattened plants. The anomalies can also be reproduced in laboratories using microwave radiation and were described in peer-reviewed scientific journals (1, 2, 3).

A crop circle formation near Crooled Soley in Berkshire, discovered in August 2002. (Copyright: Steve Alexander/temporarytemples.co.uk)

This year’s Summer Exhibition “Exploring the Mystery and Beauty of Crop Circles” can be seen until 31st August 2014 at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes. Visitors who want to revisit the Crop Circle Access Centre in the Museum will receive a return ticket. Groups are requested to book in advance.

Wiltshire Museum41 Long Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1NSTelephone: 01380 727369Email: hello@wiltshiremuseum.org.ukwww.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk
]]>http://www.openminds.tv/wiltshire-museum-features-first-ever-crop-circle-research-exhibition/29150/feed0Huge crop circle appears overnight in South West England (Video)http://www.openminds.tv/huge-crop-circle-appears-overnight-south-west-england-video/29030
http://www.openminds.tv/huge-crop-circle-appears-overnight-south-west-england-video/29030#commentsTue, 22 Jul 2014 20:34:28 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=29030A large crop circle has appeared overnight in the South West England county of Dorset. Although the Daily Mail is reporting it to be the first for the 2014 season, there have actually been dozens of crop circles reported this summer, according to the Crop Circle Connector website. Either way, the crop circle in Dorset is certainly one of the most spectacular.

The formation in Dorset was filmed by amateur pilot and crop circle enthusiast Mathew Williams. He told the Daily Mail, “Whoever, or whatever, created the shape must have been there all night – you have to really admire their handiwork.”

An image of the crop circle found near Blandford Forum in the county of Dorset in South West England. (Credit: Mathew Williams/SWNS.com)

The pattern in Dorset was laid down in a field of wheat, which is the most common crop the formations made in July are found in. This is the month when wheat is harvested. Veteran crop circle maker John Lundberg told the BBC, “[Wheat is] the best crop to work in, that’s when the most spectacular circles appear. Because each stem is upright, you can get pin sharp clarity.”

The Dorset pattern is over 400 feet long, and is made up of a star pattern with circles within circles.

Williams says, “Last summer we didn’t get many circles, but this beauty certainly makes up for that.”

Williams says the decrease in the number of crop circles being made is due to farmers getting more and more frustrated by the loss of crops and the tourist who come to visit the circles. Williams says many of the great crop circle makers are afraid of getting fined, and have thus stopped making the circles.

Thus far, Williams himself is the only crop circle maker to ever get fined. He was fined £100 after being busted for creating a crop circle in 2000. He has since stopped making crop circles, not because of fines, but because he has developed hay fever.

Last year many of the crop circles that did appear were of low quality, garnering the moniker “crap circles.” Perusing the crop circles from this year it seems the crap circles have returned.

Although it is obvious many of the crop circles are created by human beings, awe inspiring formations, like the one in Dorset, cause people to wonder if perhaps some of them are created by extraterrestrials or have some other paranormal origins.

Last year, Williams told the Daily Express that he has had paranormal experiences out in the fields while making crop circles.

Williams said, “I’ve seen small balls of light which have entered the field and chased us out on one occasion. I’ve seen them passing overhead. On two occasions we’ve also seen black, shadowy figures. Not as clear as a person, a little more rounded but a human shape. There are so many things like that. When teams of people go out into the fields and make large talismanic magical symbols, somehow that does actually have some effect on physical reality and strange things happen.”

According to Williams, he is not the only one who experiences paranormal activity out in the field. He says all of the crop circle teams he is aware of have had similar experiences.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/farmer-wants-aliens-pay-crop-circle-damage-spacing-episode-80/28789/feed0Patty Greer – Crop Circle Filmmaker – March 10, 2014http://www.openminds.tv/patty-greer-crop-circle-filmmaker-march-10-2014/26501
http://www.openminds.tv/patty-greer-crop-circle-filmmaker-march-10-2014/26501#commentsTue, 11 Mar 2014 15:26:45 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=26501Open Minds UFO Radio: Patty Greer is a Crop Circle filmmaker, but she hasn’t always been. In fact, it was an experience she had in a Crop Circle that compelled her to begin making the films. Patty is a musician and had no experience with filmmaking. However, she acted on the compulsion and now has 6 films on Crop Circles, UFOs, and extraterrestrials. Patty tells us how this all came about and explains how she believes circles are made, and the messages the makers are giving us.